tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18740044.post116160760235213274..comments2023-11-05T05:55:08.294-04:00Comments on THIS IS NOT ->Delawareliberal: Ramone's developer friends provide the sheet music and Romone sings like a birdjasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119892776164779402noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18740044.post-1161808135462892832006-10-25T16:28:00.000-04:002006-10-25T16:28:00.000-04:00Sounds like its lights out for Sokola.Sounds like its lights out for Sokola.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18740044.post-1161735546622683572006-10-24T20:19:00.000-04:002006-10-24T20:19:00.000-04:00The Friends of Historic Glasgow (FOHG) is a volunt...The Friends of Historic Glasgow (FOHG) is a voluntary, nonprofit organization of concerned citizens devoted to the cause of preserving the Glasgow, Delaware area's dwindling natural and historic resources. <BR/><BR/>http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/org/historicglasgow/<BR/><BR/>Please help by signing their petition "THREATENED BY DEVELOPMENT: Save the Natural & Cultural Resources of Historic Glasgow, DE". It takes 30 seconds and will really help. <BR/><BR/>Please follow this link:<BR/><BR/>http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/320808930<BR/><BR/>Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18740044.post-1161634657373208452006-10-23T16:17:00.000-04:002006-10-23T16:17:00.000-04:001 - Roger Roy is not on the ballot, and I am not s...1 - Roger Roy is not on the ballot, and I am not shedding tears. Also, that answer is poppycock. If you were a legislator, and you didn't know there was a problem, it's because you didn't want to know. I'm not even a legislator, and I knew. <BR/><BR/>2 - The D's control the Senate and the Governorship, and it's the R's fault? Please.<BR/><BR/>3 - We don't need to raise taxes. We were #4 in per capita spending in 2004, and the budget has gone up $500,000,000 sinc then. <BR/><BR/>What we need are legislators with the backbone to cut some of the fat from state government instead of taking the easy way out and going to the taxpayers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18740044.post-1161626400192096202006-10-23T14:00:00.000-04:002006-10-23T14:00:00.000-04:00...not to mention the reason legislators were forc......not to mention the reason legislators were forced into a corner on TTF funding is in large part because the Republican caucus is also unwilling to raise taxes to pay for the new roads that subsidize sprawl. And the R's are particularly loath to raise taxes on the developers and individuals who stand to benefit the most from the roads.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18740044.post-1161626034366783642006-10-23T13:53:00.000-04:002006-10-23T13:53:00.000-04:00Why wasn't Sokola for it last year? Or the year be...<I>Why wasn't Sokola for it last year? Or the year before? Or the year before? Why now, only at election time, is he for it?</I><BR/><BR/>Why, the answer is right on <A HREF="http://www.delhousegop.com/html/delDOTTTF.htm" REL="nofollow">your own party's website</A>. Roger Roy is just BURSTING to answer this question:<BR/><BR/><I>Recent reports that have appeared in the Delaware media, often including comments from DelDOT Secretary Nathan Hayward, indicated that state lawmakers knew of the impending shortfall and did nothing to prevent it. This is inaccurate. Legislators, including ourselves, were not aware that we were going to need to make some changes to the Transportation Trust Fund (TTF) until 2005 when Secretary Hayward indicated there was a shortfall. </I><BR/><BR/>What other legislator spoke out in any timely and meaningful way against this TTF funding maneuver?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18740044.post-1161625321940114842006-10-23T13:42:00.000-04:002006-10-23T13:42:00.000-04:00Both Ramone and Sokola are for this.Why wasn't Sok...<I>Both Ramone and Sokola are for this.</I><BR/><BR/>Why wasn't Sokola for it last year? Or the year before? Or the year before? Why now, only at election time, is he for it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18740044.post-1161623754682454942006-10-23T13:15:00.000-04:002006-10-23T13:15:00.000-04:00Prove it. Prove to me that they're going to move t...<I>Prove it. Prove to me that they're going to move the budget out of the TTF</I><BR/><BR/>Both Ramone and Sokola are for this. Neither one can do it overnight. <BR/><BR/>Sokola had very little ability to affect the outcome and is hardly a fall guy here. The departure of Hayward and Roy is a new beginning. The TTF solution will include cutbacks, and modest fee increases should be on the table too. <BR/><BR/>Reprioritization of road projects is already underway, but that's not even on Ramone's horizon. <BR/><BR/><I>tell everyone you see that the only people who want road improvements are developers.</I><BR/><BR/>Like Ramone, you are confusing "improvements" and "repairs" with the major new road building that too often does little but subsidize developers and enable more sprawl.<BR/><BR/>Walk around town and ask people if they want a big new highway in their backyard. Ask small business owners if they want new bypasses constructed.<BR/><BR/>Ask wny Ramone's list of campaign contributors is so heavy on road builders and new home builders.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18740044.post-1161621477901053702006-10-23T12:37:00.000-04:002006-10-23T12:37:00.000-04:00recent negative mailer prove it - post it.recent negative mailer <BR/><BR/>prove it - post it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18740044.post-1161621008499566172006-10-23T12:30:00.000-04:002006-10-23T12:30:00.000-04:00"That's going to happen with or without Ramone."Pr..."That's going to happen with or without Ramone."<BR/><BR/>Prove it. Prove to me that they're going to move the budget out of the TTF, after they've spent 10 years moving it in. That's nonsense. <BR/><BR/>In that district, you have Sokola who has at best sat by and allowed the budget to move into the TTF without a fight and at worst is complicit in its doing so, and you have Ramone, who says it needs to be done now. I'd say this is an excellent issue on which to state some of the case for Ramone. <BR/><BR/>And Jason -- Walk around your town and tell everyone you see that the only people who want road improvements are developers. Tell me what happens.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18740044.post-1161620495145485972006-10-23T12:21:00.000-04:002006-10-23T12:21:00.000-04:00the Deldoat admin budget belongs in the general fu...<I>the Deldoat admin budget belongs in the general fund.</I><BR/><BR/>That's going to happen with or without Ramone. The issue does not belong to Ramone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18740044.post-1161620150597177162006-10-23T12:15:00.000-04:002006-10-23T12:15:00.000-04:00Sure there is a hiring freeze now, after the shit ...Sure there is a hiring freeze now, after the shit hit the fan.<BR/><BR/>How much has Deldot grown since Tom Carper moved the admin budget into the TTF? <BR/><BR/>How many millions of road dollars went to pay for new office buildings for deldot?<BR/><BR/>Ramone is 100% right, the Deldoat admin budget belongs in the general fund.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com